Open AccessHepatitis B prevalence in women giving birth in the Northern Territory, Australia, 2005–2015
Author(s) -
Amalie Dyda,
Skye McGregor,
Paula Binks,
Jane C. Davies,
Steven Y. C. Tong,
Vicki Krause,
Peter Markey,
Shu Li Qin Li
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
communicable diseases intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.616
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2209-6051
DOI - 10.33321/cdi.2022.46.62
Subject(s) - medicine , vaccination , hepatitis b virus , northern territory , hepatitis b , indigenous , demography , epidemiology , virology , geography , virus , ecology , archaeology , sociology , biology
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination in the Northern Territory (NT) was funded for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander newborns in 1988 and for all newborns in 1990. The prevalence of HBV in the Northern Territory was found to be higher in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women than in non-Indigenous women across 2005-2010. We examined more recent data to assess whether the gap remains.